59 Amazing Content Marketing Tools for Your Blog

Note from Sean: When it comes down to it, the success of a blog ultimately depends on both the quality of the content you write, and your ability to share your content successfully.

There are a ton of options to help you do that – some are fantastic, some not so much.

Luckily, Charles Bordet of Become a Top Performer did all the research for you and found 59 of the very best tools for creating and sharing remarkable content across the web. I personally found a ton of valuable resources from this, I’m adding to my regular workflow.

With that, enjoy!

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You spend dozens of hours on a single blog post. You rewrite it, edit it, polish it, and make it the best you can.

It is time to hit publish, but as you give a last look at your article, you realize it sounds like any other piece of content on the internet. Same words, same advice, nothing outstanding.

It’s frustrating, right? You try your best, but creating something original and remarkable is not easy, by definition.

It doesn’t have to be this way, though.

Writing the perfect article and creating remarkable content on a regular basis is a process that can be broken down into manageable steps. There are tools out there that will help you with each step towards the creation of your perfect post.

Writing short articles that don’t provide a lot of value to your readers doesn’t work anymore. That might have worked back in 2005 when you could count bloggers on your hand, but today it’s just a waste of time.

What works today is creating outstanding content that gets noticed. It gets noticed by your readers, of course, but not only. Influencers can recognize good content and help you promote it to even more people.

Writing a crappy post might help you get a bit of traffic after the publication, but it’s not worth the effort.

Besides, writing great content will help convince your readers that you’re worth listening to. They will like you right away and start to trust you more. As a result, they’re more likely to buy your products and follow your advice.

Finally, writing remarkable content doesn’t just give you traffic right after the publication. Instead, it keeps bringing you new readers and subscribers months after it is out.

1. Tools to Find the Perfect Blog Post Idea

You could write the best article on how to write a check, but chances are that nobody would care about it. However, if you write an awesome article on how to guest post, which is something a lot of people care about, you will more likely get a lot of success with it.

If you want to learn how to find the perfect blog post idea, here are a few suggestions for you:

The ContentIdeator Generator is similar to BuzzSumo as it will give you a list of existing articles and rank them according to how many social shares they get.

They seem to have a different algorithm, though, as they don’t provide the same results. Here is what I get:

One drawback compared to BuzzSumo is that they don’t give you access to the number of shares the post got. However, you can go back in time long after 1 year ago, which is the limit for the free version of BuzzSumo.

This tool is unique in its genre. It’s not just a “put your word and get suggestions” tool, but a sophisticated spreadsheet that will tell you:

What’s trending across many social or news channels (Twitter, Google Search, Reddit, etc.)

What is the most successful recent content around a topic you choose.

Tons of information about influencers in your niche.

This tool use goes way beyond just finding blog post ideas, but let’s focus on that for now.

They explain here how to set up the tool to use it. It’s actually a Google Spreadsheet, and all you need to do is make a copy for yourself. They also explain you how to copy/paste the script, but for some reason I didn’t have to do it, it was already filled.

Then, on the first tab Ideas, enter your keyword, and get tons of successful articles for inspiration:

The Tweak Your Biz Title Generator first asks you whether your keyword is a noun or a verb.

This allows them to provide you with more relevant headlines and avoid the so common Here are 10 Ways to Content Marketing Better, which doesn’t make sense (in this example, my keyword Content Marketing is a noun and it was considered as a verb).

The tool separates the headlines between Lists, Questions, How To, etc., and also let you download the whole list of ideas, so that you can put it in your blog post ideas swipe file (you should have one).

As with all headlines generator, all ideas aren’t good, but this tools gives you so many ideas, that if you take only the top 10%, you’re still left with dozens of ideas!

I find it better to get only 1 headline (with the possibility to generate others) rather than 100 at once, as in the latter case it can get overwhelming and leave you stuck with too many choices.

By giving you only 1, you can give it all your consideration and think of how you could tweak it. Additionally, the WebpageFX Blog Post Idea Generator provides you with a button to google the idea, and thus find other similar content ideas.

But if you don’t have the time to read these great guides or if you’re still not sure whether your headline is good or not, you can use the following tools. They will give a score to your headline and tell you right away if they’re awesome… or terrible.

This is by far my most preferred headline analyzer. I use it every time I want to write a new post. I use it to test my headlines when I want to submit ideas for a guest post (since in this case, the blogger takes his decision mostly based on the headline). Sometimes I even include my headline score in the pitch.

Enter the headline and you’ll get a score between 0 and 100, though most of the time your score will be in the (60, 80) range. Anything above 70% is good enough.

The score is based on:

The word balance (common, uncommon, emotional and power words)

The headline type (list posts, questions, generic, …)

The length (too long is not good for SEO). It also shows you how it will look in Google or as an email subject line.

Keywords

Sentiment analysis

When I test the headline 101 Amazing Tools to Create Remarkable Content Easily, I get a score of 73%!

Enter your headline, pick a category (this doesn’t seem to have any impact on the score) and click Submit For Analysis.

As you can see, my headline gets a 87.50% score. Fantastic! As they say, the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in headlines. Maybe I should start a new copywriting career!

As with any automatic tool, you also still need to have a critical mind. Once you understand how the algorithm works, you can craft a headline that gets a 100% score but that doesn’t make sense at all. I found that the more you tweak your headline to add emotional words, the stranger it sounds.

Instead of analyzing your headlines based on determined factors, the KingSumo Headlines plugin will determine the best headline based on the choices on your visitors.

Let me explain. In your WordPress article editor, you write several headlines you think are good but don’t know which is the best. The plugin will randomly show different headlines to your visitors and test which one works best.

As it gets more information, the algorithm will display the headline that gets you the most traffic, without you having to do anything.

I am not using this tool, as it is rather expensive at the stage of my business (starting at $99, I won’t be able to have a positive ROI), but if you’re looking for tweaking your headlines in a sophisticated way, this tool seems to be the right one.

The Thrive Headline Optimizer is like the KingSumo Headlines plugin we just discussed.

After submitting several headlines to your post, it will analyze the click-through-rate, the time readers spend on the article and how much they’re scrolling in it, to determine what is the best headline.

After gathering enough information, the optimizer will show the winning headline to maximize traffic.

It is a bit less expensive than the KingSumo version, with a starting price of $67.

Here is another plugin that will let you test different headlines and compare them over time to find what is the best one. After having accumulated enough data, it will show the winner to your readers, meaning you don’t have to manage it anymore once set up.

The plugin has the advantage of being free, compared to the two previous ones. It also has a pro version that will allow you to test different featured images (that’s useful if you write your headline on the featured image like I do) and provide detailed statistics for a price of 29.99$ per year.

It’s hard to tell which of the three plugins is the best, as they all more or less promise the same things, but might be using different technologies that provide different results.

Tools to Write The Best Outline

Once you have a good blog post idea and a compelling headline, the next step before starting your first draft is to draw a detailed outline of your future article.

The outline is an important step, as it will allow you:

To write the first draft easily (by already knowing exactly what you need to write about).

To avoid taking many different directions and waste time (you already have a structure of the article).

To avoid iterating again and again (you have an initial plan and stick to it).

Here are top articles to help you learn how to write the best outlines:

WorkFlowy is a lot simpler, and you don’t even need to create an account or download anything to try it.

While it’s intended to be used as a to-do list, you can use it to structure your blog post and take notes for each section or subsection.

The coolest features are the possibilities to move around the sections, fold and unfold them, and play with the indents. This helps to focus on creating the content and the structure without wasting too much time on formatting the text.

Scrivener is the ultimate software for writers. It is awesome for writing blog posts.

But in this section, we’re interested in what it can offer us to improve our outlines. Like many other outlining tools, you can write the structure similar with bullet points and then expand them by explaining what they contain.

What I like with Scrivener though is that you can zoom into your outline and know at what step you are in the creation of the article. Is this subsection already finished or still in progress? How many words have I already written for this part?

Instead of writing the outline as a step separated from the rest, Scrivener integrates it in your writing project.

If you want a tool that lets you write without worrying about anything else, you will like CheckVist.

This tool focuses on having a LOT of keyboard shortcuts to help you focus on outlining only and not worry about anything. The shortcuts will help you write the outline at light speed.

They define this tool as the Online outliner for geeks as it’s intended for people who aren’t afraid of complex keyboard shortcuts or writing in Markdown. If that’s you, then give it a try. If not, try something more user-friendly.

I’m not a huge fan of mind maps for outlining my blog posts, but I know some people only use that. In fact, just creating the example for the screenshot below showed me how powerful outlining with a mind map can be.

Every time you get a new idea, you can create a new branch and divide it in sub-branches to get more and more specific.

Now, there are tons of mindmapping tools out there, so why Coggle? Because:

It’s free.

It’s simple. We don’t need fancy features.

It’s online. No need to download anything.

It’s easy to sign up. You can link your Google account and be set up in 30 seconds.

Tools to Write Your Sh***y First Draft

So far you have:

Found a compelling blog post idea with a good headline.

Written a detailed outline.

What’s the next step? According to best-selling author Anne Lamott, it’s the sh**y first draft.

You just write. And later you will edit.

I won’t direct you to other articles to learn how to write your first draft, because really all you need to know is this:

Follow the structure of your outline.

Write everything you have in your head.

Don’t worry about formatting, grammar mistakes, awkward phrasing or rambling. Don’t edit when writing the first draft. A good exercise is to prevent yourself from using the backspace key.

You can only get better at it by getting practice.

Of course, there are tools to help you in this daunting task, but I must warn you: They won’t do the writing at your place!

It’s like a simplified online Microsoft Word with which you can collaborate with other people. I used to write all my blog articles in Google Docs, and I still do sometimes, like right now. Indeed, it’s a great collaboration tool, I can share it very easily with Sean and then he can directly add comments or edit the article if I give him the rights.

Markdown Pad 2 is where I write most of my articles nowadays (this is going to change though, as I discovered a lot of interesting tools by writing this article).

Markdown is a markup language that helps you write in HTML without knowing HTML. Instead, you have a set of rules to write the titles, to write in bold, or to make bullet points. Most of them are really intuitive, so there’s no steep learning curve.

Now, why should you bother to write this way when nowadays we have tools such as Google Docs that make all the formatting much easier?

Here’s why: I used to write in Google Docs, but then I would waste hours trying to copy/paste it in my WordPress editor. If you’ve tried it yourself, you know what I mean.

Now, by using the HTML provided by my markdown document, all I need is one copy/paste, and everything is already beautiful. I’m saving hours writing this way.

One important drawback is that I lose the collaborating possibility that Google Docs was offering.

If you struggle to write your first draft and tend to procrastinate on it, Twords can help you with that.

It’s not great for collaboration, it’s not great for writing an entire blog post in it, but it’s great to get your writing done! And when you’re writing your sh***y first draft, that’s all that matter.

The best way to make progress in your writing is to write every day. Twords will ask you to set up a daily word count and then nudge you to get it done.

For example, you choose to write 500 words daily, you pick a time to write it (let’s say 30 minutes), and start writing it. Twords has a bunch of features that will get you more motivated to write, for example:

It told me “If you continue to write 717 words every day, you will write a 50,000 word novel in 70 days.” That’s inspiring!

It tracks the number of words you write and gives you a score on it. Improve your score by writing more!

Get you friends on Twords and stay accountable to them. You can add accountability buddies to your account.

Have you ever written an article, then iterated on it, and kept iterating again and again… Only to want to come back at a previous version?

Most of the time, that’s not possible. All you’ve got is your current version and you can’t go back in the past.

If you’re this kind of writer who wants to save versions of your work as you make progress on it, then you may want to give Typewrite a try.

It also offers you a distraction-free environment, a possibility to collaborate with other people, to sync your articles on Dropbox, and also to type in Markdown!

Tools to Write in the Zone and Double Your Productivity

In the previous section, we saw a bunch of distraction-free writing environment. Why is it that most writing apps out there focus on this one feature?

The answer is: Because writing is hard.

Writing is so hard that you will find any excuse to not do it. When comes the time of your writing session, you suddenly realize that your apartment needs some cleaning and that you have the motivation to do it!

You will procrastinate on writing. If you’re not careful, you will waste hours social media, emails, or anything that is not writing. A common example is doing research for hours, thinking you’re being productive, while all you’re doing is actually postponing the writing.

It doesn’t have to be this way. A lot of tools can help you to get the writing done and resist the procrastination.

Some people find that listening to nature music, especially rain, helps increase their focus. I’m definitely part of these people, and found that Rainy Mood does this job well. All you have to do is launch the website, and that’s it.

While I like with listening to the rain is that it’s a bit similar to white noise. It isolates you from external noise, hence creating a kind of sensoriel bubble that will help you get in the zone.

ColdTurkey is a long time favorite of mine. For a while, when I was working full-time from home, I was using it almost religiously. This was my savior from the unlimited world of distractions that is internet.

This tool will allow you to block all the distractions on your computer: Social media, emails, games, webchats, etc. You name it!

You simply make a list of websites and programs that distract you during your writing, and then tells ColdTurkey to block them during a specific time frame.

For example, after I made my list, I told the app to block all my distractions every weekday from 6 am to 9 am, which is the timeframe when I’m working on my business:

If you find yourself spending too much time on Facebook instead of doing your writing, consider doing the same thing. There is no shame in admitting that resisting to distractions is hard.

There is a free version but it won’t allow you to block programs on your computer nor schedule specific times like I do. The paid version is a one-time $19 payment.

It is a writing app with a special feature: It won’t let you quit until you’re done.

You set up a number of words to write or a duration. Until the goal is achieved, you can’t quit the app. You can’t anything else but write until you’re done.

You could do with the free version, but the paid version (a one-time $10 payment) offers a setting that I particularly like: It blocks the backspace and delete keys. This is just perfect for writing your first draft! Too many people tend to edit and write at the same time, resulting in wasting a lot of time iterating again and again on the same things.

You certainly have heard about the Pomodoro Technique. This time management technique invented by Francesco Cirillo works like that:

You set up the timer for 25 minutes.

You work until the timer expires.

You take a short break of 5 minutes.

Repeat steps 1 to 3.

One iteration of the process is called One Pomodoro, and every 4 pomodoros you take a long break (at least 10 minutes).

The major benefit of this technique is to reduce procrastination. Instead of thinking of the big daunting task you need to do, all you do is a click to start the timer, and now you’ve got to write for just 25 minutes, which sounds really easy.

Since writing is hard and something we tend to procrastinate on, the Pomodoro technique will help you get started with writing. That the hardest part is always getting started. Once you’re in a flow, it’s easy to keep going.

Tools to Make Extensive and Insightful Research

Nowadays, people want to back up their blog posts with as much research and data as possible.

I don’t always agree with this, as I found that many blog posts get their value simply from you sharing your personal experience. This way, by making people relate to your story, you inspire them to take action and change their lives. Not much research needed in this case.

That’s what matters in the end: Make people to take action. It’s not about feeding them with more information.

In this case, research should only be made to improve your current draft, not to change it or replace your personal experiences by studies and other facts.

But for some articles, like this one actually, you need to do a ton of research before writing the first word. For example, before starting to write this article, I went on an Internet journey to find as many tools as possible. Then I tried them, I discarded some and selected others.

So how to do this kind of research in an efficient and insightful way?

Have you ever stumble upon an article and thought “Woah! That’s exactly what I need for my next blog post!”, but you’re in the kitchen, preparing a meal for your family, simply browsing your phone, and you can’t take the time to read the whole article right now.

So you take a mental note, hope it won’t disappear, and move on with your life.

The next morning, you sit before your computer, ready to write your blog post, and you try to remember how you found this article the previous… but your mind goes blank.

Damn!

No need for such frustration anymore. Use Pocket and simply save all these articles in one place: In your Pocket.

How does it work?

You subscribe to the service (it’s free).

You get the extension for your browser (they tell you right away how to do it).

You also install it on your phone (they also told me how to do it, it was 1 click away, so I clicked)

Every time you stumble upon an article but don’t have time to read it, Pocket it!

Yes, we already talked about Evernote for outlining, but what was once a simple note-taking app has now become powerful.

I find that Evernote is the perfect research vault for your blog posts.

First, there is a feature similar to Pocket and it’s called the Evernote Web Clipper. It will help you save your articles for later.

But you can also use it for research purposes. First, create a Notebook called Research. Then, for each topic relevant to your blog, create a new note. Finally, every time you read something interesting about a topic, you can add it in your note, with a link to your source.

This way, when you need some scientific facts or data about a topic, you can go directly to your Evernote notebook and directly find everything you need.

Google Scholar is the Google for scientific papers. Every field is subject to scientific research, whether you’re in marketing, fitness, personal finances or travel. Some fields will be more relevant than others though.

For example, if you write about travel hacking, this won’t be useful at all. But if you write about sleep, this will be a goldmine of information.

Tools to Edit and Transform Your First Draft

You should now already have your first draft, and thanks to this list of tools, you could find the time and focus to sit and write something.

This something isn’t good enough yet. It’s just your first draft, it’s just words that barely make sense together and that need some editing.

There are a lot of wonderful tools that will help you get from a sh***y first draft to a compelling new version your readers won’t stop reading.

The Hemingway Editor is also a writing app, but really you don’t get any benefit from writing directly in it. It’s better to copy paste what you’ve been writing so far to try to improve it on the go.

This app will tell you:

The readability of your writing: It tends to tell me that sixth Graders can read my stuff, which is a good thing as it means my writing is very readable. You don’t need to write in a complex way on the internet.

Which sentences are hard (or very hard) to read. You may want to cut them in two or three parts.

When you use adverbs. Adverbs brings complexity while you could probably replace them by a better verb that means exactly what you mean.

When you use passive voice. You should avoid it in some cases as it will prevent you from making the emphasis on the right subject.

Simply go through your post and make minor edits here and there. If you’re like me, you’ll find a bunch of really, very and just that you can easily get rid of.

Grammarly is a grammar checker that propose you a free version or a paid version.

You can also install the Chrome plugin, so that everywhere you’ll be writing it will check grammar for you.

Otherwise, you can simply copy/paste your post in there and it will spot all your mistakes. As a non-native, I find this incredibly useful since I still make a lot of mistakes, sometimes as simple as this one:

For you English-speaking people, “news” is singular and I tend to forget it.

With the Premium paid version, Grammarly will also help you improve your post by spotting wrong word choices, wordiness, passive voice use, lack of clarity, etc.

Do you sometimes get stuck on a word? You know the word, you know exactly what you mean, but it’s empty in your head. How frustrating!

Well, the TwinWord Writer will remove your frustration. If you’re hesitating on a word, it will make suggestions to help you find just the right word. It’s also great for editing, as every time you highlight a word, it will propose you a bunch of alternatives.

This can be a great tool for non-native English speakers who struggle to have a rich vocabulary and tend to write like 6th graders (yes I may talk about how I feel about my writing).

While this tool could be seen as a writing environment, I chose to feature it here as an editing tool for its WordPress plugin. Once installed, you will be able to improve your writing thanks to the word alternatives it suggests to you, but it will also give you some cool stats on your article. See for example:

Similar to Grammarly, After the Deadline will check spelling and grammar mistakes, but will also spot the use of passive voice, complex expressions, etc.

Again, you can simply copy/paste your post in there to immediately get started. Every time it spots a way to improve your article, it will give you suggestions (for example to completely omit the expression), explain you why, and also give you the option to ignore this kind of recommendation all together.

Almost all writing platforms out there will tell you how many words there are in your article.

But that’s not what WordCounter is about. This tool will rank the most frequently used words of your post.

It can be useful if you have a tendency to always use the same words again and again without noticing it (but your readers will notice and get tired of it!). It can also help identify a keyword that you could focus on for SEO purposes.

If I copy/paste this article into the tool, here is what I get:

Clearly, the keyword I would focus on for SEO would be writing tools, which is not a surprise.

Now I notice that I might be an over-user of the word get. There are certainly many opportunities where I could replace it with a better verb that will improve the readability of my writing.

Tools to Illustrate Your Post and Make it Attractive

We’re almost done!

You’ve written a detailed outline, then expanded it into a first draft that you edited with the help of some insightful research.

It’s almost time to publish your article, but there are a few more details to set up. I usually add the pictures and screenshots right at the end, so that I can focus only on the writing until it’s done. You also need a featured image for your post!

How much time does it take you to find a good featured image for your posts?

It rarely takes me more than 5 minutes, thanks to iStockPhoto. I write some keywords related to my articles, select the Essentials category (for cheaper stock photos) and find something good enough very quickly.

Now, it is expensive. It will cost you between $7 to $9 per picture, while it’s true you can find a lot of free stock photos on the internet.

But I found that when I was searching in the free galleries, every time I would spend an infinite amount of time trying to get something good enough. That’s why I’d rather pay a small fee, but avoid myself the pain of wasting a lot of time.

Once I have my featured image for my next post, I put it into PicMonkey to have something shareable on social media. On the home page, I choose Edit/ Computer and pick my featured image.

Then, you can play with your picture and add many effects. The almost only feature I use though is to add text on it. In a matter of minutes, you get your featured image with your blog post title, making it easily shareable on social media.

Canva is similar to PicMonkey in that it will help you edit an image to add some text or other effects.

You can choose among thousands of layouts, then add text, other elements like shapes, charts, icons, etc.

I very rarely use Canva, as I prefer choosing a stock photo and just adding some text on it. But I know a lot of people who use it and are very happy with it. So give it a try! Here is a social media friendly image I made in just a few minutes:

Skitch is amazing! Have you already noticed these bloggers who annotate their screenshots or add pink arrows to it? Sometimes the arrows are red, as in this article. Well, these annotations are made with Skitch!

Now, I have a bad news for Windows users: Skitch is not supported on Windows anymore…

But don’t worry! There is a turnaround. I use Windows and still have access to Skitch. In fact, it is implemented in Evernote. Here is what to do:

A great way to illustrate your blog posts and add a funny touch into it is to create a meme. It is very simple to do so:

Pick your meme image (or upload your own).

Add your text (be creative).

Click Generate Meme.

Tools to Promote the Hell of Your Post

You have created the BEST article on a topic. Now what? How are people supposed to know it exists?

You PROMOTE it! This is a crucial step that will make or break your blog post. You share it with your email subscribers, you talk about it to your friends, you post it on social media, and you reach out to as many people as you can to get the word out.

Here are what the experts say on how to promote your post efficiently:

Buffer will allow you to schedule the sharing of your content easily on multiple platforms.

You can add your Tweets (or Facebook shares, or other platforms) directly in the Buffer interface, but really what’s best is to use the browser extension. As I browse the internet, if I stumble upon a good article I’d like to share with my audience, I can directly buffer it to share it multiple times in the next few days.

Ninja Outreach is a tool that will allow you to systematize and almost automate reaching out to people to let them know about your latest blog post.

This is not for spamming hundreds of people with the same template. You still need to build relationships with people, bring value to them, and be authentic if you want them to share your posts.

However, this tool will allow you to set up lists of influencers and then to email them quickly (you will have the option of personalizing your emails, even if you create a template). You can also find new influencers very easily.

PostReach is not a tool to promote your content directly, but it will help you to measure how many shares it got, through which channels, and also discover the influencers who promoted it.

You can give your website name so that PostReach directly track your new blog posts, but also tell him when you publish a guest post on another website.

For each blog post, you have access to a detailed report giving you a bunch of information on how the article has been shared. For example:

Tools You Wouldn’t Even Think Of

There are many tools I use on a regular basis that I would have never known they exist. Even if they are of great help, you’re so used to doing it your way (that is painful and tedious) that you don’t even try to Google to see if there is an easier alternative.

In this last section, you will find many tools that will your life as a blogger a lot easier.

Screencastify is a free video recording tool that will help you make quick and easy videos of your screen.

Imagine that a friend of yours or a reader asks you a question, and you want to answer but it’s gonna take hours to write a really thoughtful answer since a lot of explanations are needed. Sometimes, a picture is worth 1,000 words, meaning it’s much easier to SHOW something instead of trying to describe it.

In just a few clicks, you can start recording your screen. Once done, it will automatically upload the recording on Google Drive for example, so that you can share it easily.

Sometimes you need to do repetitive and boring tasks for your business. It might be finding new websites to guest post for, influencers to find, reformatting a document in a robotic way, transcribing a video, etc.

Sometimes, these tasks don’t really require YOU to do them, it could be anyone with a brain. In this case, you should give Mechanical Turk a go.

Trello is a productivity tool that can help you manage your blog articles (as well as your to-do list, your Kanban board, your long term projects, and many other things).

For example, by creating a board for your articles, you can then add all your blog post ideas in a first list.

Then, every time you write a first draft, you drag and drop the idea in the second list called “Writing first draft”. As you make progress on it, you drag the blog post to the right until it gets into the “Published” list.

As you get more and more articles in progress, this can be a great tool to manage them.

Have you already tried to transcribe an interview or a video you recorded yourself?

If yes, you know it’s HUGE pain. You find yourself always switching back and forth between your text editor and the video, returning a few seconds ago, repeating again and again, always switching windows, making miss clicks and… it’s a mess.

oTranscribe makes it much easier. With just a few key shortcuts (basically, Esc to play/pause the video) and a few minutes of practice, you can write continuously on your transcription and finish a lot quicker than with the previous technique. This is a huge time-saver.

Writing is the most important skill you can ever develop for your business. Everything involves writing, whether it’s creating content for your readers, creating a product, or connecting with your subscribers.

You just need to write, and there is no turnaround.

A bad news is that we’re all bad when we start writing. The good news is that you can better if you practice consistently. And what better way to get consistent practice than with writing every day?

That’s what Daily Page proposes you: Daily writing prompts to write daily and get a ton of practice. To increase your motivation, it also provides reminders and personal stats to see your progress.

Your Getaway

This is a HUGE list of tools for creating remarkable content. I tested a ton of other tools but decided not to include them for many reasons. Sometimes because there are better alternatives, sometimes because it was plain broken, or because it wasn’t really essential to the remarkable blogger.

The goal wasn’t to make the longest list ever, but to present only high-quality tools. Even with this in mind, the list is overwhelming.

My recommendation is that you keep it close with you, so that every time you face an issue, you can come back at it and find a solution.

It’s always been my nature to hate having to sift through online tools and try to figure out not only what the purpose of them is but how to use them. You did all the heavy lifting for us, explaining everything in plain English about the benefits, comparisons, and how to use each (with screenshots nonetheless), in a way that didn’t make me feel stupid for not knowing all this amazing stuff. Bravo!

Now, off to write some outreach pitches for my narrowed-down list of places that authentically resonate with me, have solid traffic, and a highly engaged audience while listening to some rain.

This is an absolutely epic article! Huge amount of research must have gone into this. Lots of tools here that I didn’t know about. I’m a really passionate believer in mind maps when organising ideas and information. I use a free one called Simple Mind.

Do you know what became of a a service called ContentMarketer.io? If you wrote an article that mentioned other blog posts, you could just enter the URL of your article and CM would find email addresses for all the bloggers mentioned in your article. It seems to have disappeared.